21 Great Technologies That Failed

Tablet PCs (2002)Rather than typing on a PC, why not write on it as though it were a pad of paper? And have the CPU interpret your chicken scratch, sort your notes, and generally work in a much smarter way? Based on sales, it seems the world still isn’t ready for the Tablet PC. Nevertheless, Gates is convinced you’ll eventually love this system.

I think the failure here, is that PC Mag doesn’t comprehend that having the Tablet PC features mainstreamed into Vista is a great success.